News Round-Up

• “The dire warning from Nancy Pelosi that pushed Biden to change his mind” – Despite insisting for three weeks that he was still in the race, the President’s withdrawal was ultimately swift and dramatic, writes Nick Squires in the Telegraph.
• “White House covered up Biden decline, BBC presenter claims” – Justin Webb, who presents BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and the Americast podcast, says there was “no question” that the Democrats had been untruthful about the state of Joe Biden’s health, according to the Telegraph.
• “Kamala Harris the giggling fool will doom America” – In chasing Joe Biden out, the Democratic party has foisted an even worse candidate on voters, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph.
• “Kamala Harris will be a disaster for the Democrats – and for America” – Biden was just about able to keep his party together, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph. Now the Left’s identity obsession will be unleashed.
• “This is the end of the Democratic Party as we knew it” – Joe Biden’s withdrawal will open the floodgates to unrestrained California-style progressivism, writes Joel Kotkin in Spiked.
• “‘Bullying’ leaves Kamala Harris without a top team for White House bid” – Kamala Harris faces a staffing crisis for her 2024 bid, thanks to a history of high turnover and claims of bullying during her Vice-Presidency, reports the Telegraph.
• “‘It would be potty to vote for Kamala Harris simply because she’s a woman’” – Nigel Farage says it would be “absolutely potty” for Americans to vote for Kamala Harris on the basis she could be the first female President, according to the Telegraph.
• “The American people are finished with the shameful Democrats” – Donald Trump’s new message of unity and reconciliation stands in sharp contrast to the chaos left by the Biden administration, says Richard Porter in the Telegraph.
• “America is paying the price for the monstrous Biden lie” – Had Mr. Biden prepared a succession plan, or been honest about his limitations at an earlier date, the path to a Democratic Presidency would be far clearer, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “It’s been almost 24 hours since he quit his Presidential campaign – where is Joe Biden?” – The world must hear and see Joe Biden announce and explain his decision to step down from the Presidential campaign himself, says Alex Berenson on his Unreported Truths Substack.
• “Green leader sorry for praising Joe Biden after Gaza backlash” – The co-leader of the English Green Party Carla Denyer has been forced to apologise to her party’s nutty members after praising Joe Biden, reports the Mail.
• “Secret Service chief takes ‘full responsibility’ for failing to prevent Trump shooting” – Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was accused of being “full of s***” as she was ripped to shreds by Rep. Nancy Mace during a grilling over Donald Trump’s assassination attempt, says the Mail.
• “Snippets from Kimberly Cheatle’s testimony today to make you mad” – On Substack, Dr. Meryl Nass highlights the many questions that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle failed to answer at the House Committee hearing.
• “Could Biden’s exit turn out to be Ukraine’s gain?” – Donald Trump may be more open to working with President Zelensky with his main rival off the scene, writes Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
• “We need to talk about the Harehills riot” – The violent disorder in Leeds speaks to a catastrophic failure of integration, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Elite schools set to become even wealthier under new VAT rules” – Analysis suggests that wealthy private schools may end up making a profit from the Government’s introduction of VAT on fees, according to the Times. They’ll charge parents for the VAT in full, then claim it back on capital projects.
• “Only a barrister could say ‘there’s no evidence’” – Starmer’s insistence that there’s no evidence of harm to schools from an education tax is at odds with… well, the only time it’s ever been tried, which was in Greece, only to be abandoned six months later, says Mr. Chips on his Substack.
• “Labour throws decades of cross-party consensus on schools into reverse” – Less focus, less rigour, less discipline, less choice – Keir Starmer has let his party’s worst instincts set its agenda on education, writes Henry Hill in Conservative Home.
• “Labour is about to wreck your child’s education” – Professor of Education and social justice zealot Becky Francis is conducting a review of the national curriculum. Parents should be afraid, says Tim Stanley in the Telegraph.
• “Lammy’s lament” – What David Lammy fails to see is that, because of the attempt on Trump’s life, his invectives are more than just painful words, writes Peter Harris in the New Conservative.
• “‘We have lost control of our economy. The next Tory PM must reclaim it’” – Liberalism has infested all areas of policy making. The challenge is to find a cure for this sickness, says Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
• “Sunak to remain Tory leader until November” – Rishi Sunak is to remain as leader of the Tory party until November 2nd, when he will be replaced by the victorious leadership candidate, reports Sky News.
• “Robert Jenrick emerges as Tory leadership frontrunner in new poll” – A new poll of Conservative Party members finds that 55% list the former Immigration Minister as one of their top choices for the next leader, says the Telegraph.
• “Conservatives are doomed if they cling to the dying two-party system” – Tory Party moderates always insist that the key to winning elections is moving to the centre – but history tells another story, writes William Atkinson in the Telegraph.
• “‘Cordon sanitaire’ descends on hard-Right politicians” – Despite their significant gains across Europe, hard-Right parties remain relegated to the sidelines in most of the EU’s member states, says Anne-Laure Dufeal in Brussels Signal.
• “The People’s Court of new normal Germany” – On Substack, American playwright C.J. Hopkins provides an update on his second trial in Berlin for thoughtcrime.
• “Lockdown ‘anxiety’ ignored, says court as it overturns life sentence for girlfriend killer” – A top Italian court has overturned the life sentence handed to a nurse who strangled his doctor girlfriend to death during lockdown because a lower court failed to account for ‘Covid stress’, reports the Mail.
• “The Covid coverup still haunts the world” – The U.S. under Biden has effectively let Beijing off the hook for obscuring the origins of the Covid virus, writes Brahma Chellaney in the Hill.
• “The great bird flu myth – the next ‘pandemic threat’ Big Pharma needs” – Big Pharma’s profits are down; a pandemic of H9N7 would put it back on the government teat, says Paula Jardine in TCW.
• “Cosmetic surgery company that sued over bad reviews settles cases” – A cosmetic surgery company accused of trying to silence patients after they posted negative online reviews has climbed down on its lawsuits and paid costs in a victory for the Free Speech Union, reports the Times.
• “Climate justice vs criminal justice” – XR and JSO co-founder Roger Hallam is one of five road-blocking activists to have been given significant prison sentences. What should we make of the claims that these sentences are ‘harsh’? asks Ben Pile on his Net Zero Scandal Substack.
• “Saintly quest of eco-zealot will lead more astray” – The apocalyptic views of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam are shared by rising numbers of green supporters, warns Will Lloyd in the Times.
• “A waste of energy” – In Taki’s Mag, Theodore Dalrymple denounces the devastating and absurd radical green policies of the new British Government. 
• “Western miners push for higher metals prices to ward off Chinese rivals” – Western miners, battling cheaper Chinese supply, are pushing for premium pricing on sustainable metals, potentially raising consumer costs, reports Reuters.
• “Details of PSNI transgender training course which force wanted to keep hidden” – Police officers in Northern Ireland have been given training to accept that being male or female “is a social construct”, according to the Belfast News Letter.
• “John Swinney could scrap SNP’s ‘extreme’ conversion therapy ban” –Scotland’s First Minister is poised to scrap plans for a Scottish ban on conversion therapy and instead rubber-stamp Labour’s version of the policy, reports the Telegraph.
• “Won’t somebody please think of the drag queens?” – The BBC’s obsession with crossdressing men is now bleeding into its coverage of the cost-of-living crisis, writes Lauren Smith in Spiked.
• “‘This is bulls**t! You are full of sh**!’” – Watch as Rep. Nancy Mace ends the career of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle during a fiery congressional hearing.

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